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[dafnagreer]

Everyone knows about the star-studded gay marriage play, right? And has already watched it? If not, you have until the end of Saturday, west coast U.S. time. Aside from the whole worthy cause, etc. (it's a dramatization of the Prop 8 trial in California), this is truly the video for all (OK, many) fandoms

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[throughadoor]

UGH, I MEAN. I JUST HAVE ALL THESE FEELINGS.

You know, this is neither here nor there, but whenever I am forced to briefly relive the Prop 8 horror show, I want to send Deval Patrick 10,272 unicorns for using his honeymoon political capital to help make sure that Massachusetts never had to endure a state proposition battle.

But watching media like this always gives me en eerie feeling, like -- it reminds me of being in school and studying Guernica, and how it was a terrible atrocity but Picasso was an amazing painter and he was inspired to make this incredibly famous painting. I just want to get to the part where kids in school are learning about the art that we made during marriage discrimination, and how that was a terrible time but it's over now and hey this stuff came out of it. That'd be neat.

[dafnagreer]

Yeah, I feel that way about all the great AIDS plays too.

We're going to have a state prop battle this fall (which is more about the way our state constitution is set up than anything a governor could do) but I'm cautiously optimistic as not only is it a presidential election, but we've got a legalize marijuana prop going on the same ballot. So lots of young liberals at the polls, hopefully.

[throughadoor]

Yeah, I would love nothing more than to see one of these state ballot measures actually go the right way (and I think you're right, Washington has a good chance, I think in Massachusetts we would have failed, the Catholic Church still has too much weight to throw around) -- but just living through the rhetoric of it is just so fucking draining, you know?

One of my friends who lived in Boston for the whole period of back-and-forth wrangling between 2004 and 2010 moved to New York a couple years ago and he called me last year when marriage was being debated in the New York state legislature and was like "NO, SERIOUSLY, I CAN'T GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN. I JUST CAN'T." There are moments like watching this performance that make me really happy, but this entire political movement sometimes feels like one big long emotional non-con.